Royal International Air Tattoo 2006, RAF Fairford, 13th Jul'06 (Thu arrivals & practise)
Thursday dawned a dull and overcast morning, in fact it was actually cold and very windy...! It didn't stay like that for too long though....
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166673 F/A-18F USNavy
The Super Hornet arriving from Farnborough early morning
61+12 Atlantic German Navy
Again, arriving through the gloomy weather
144 Hercules Pakistan A/F
A 1st time visitor from the Pakistan A/F...
...The a/c was specially painted to say thank you to all countries who helped in the recent earth quake relief effort
T-784 Citation Swiss A/F
New jet into the Swiss fleet
508 Mirage2000 French A/F
Practise display in poor conditions, but meant it could form its own clouds....!
67 PC-9 Slovenian A/F
Seen arriving from Cologne where it stopped for fuel en-route from Slovenia
047 Yak-40 Polish A/F
VIP transport visitor, a rare bird these days. Pity it didn't stay for the static....!
ZJ648 Alphajet RAF
An old German Alphajet, now flew by the guys from DERA @ Boscombe down, not often seen!
166391 V-22 Osprey USMarines
Another 1st time visitor, this time to the UK let alone RIAT...
...the tilt rotor seen departing for a practise display on Thursday afternoon...
...climbing into conventional flight from a short take off. A weird bird but very quiet...!
C.16-22 Typhoon Spanish A/F
The two welcomed 1st time visitors to RIAT seen shortly after arrival
U-06 Fokker 50 R.Netherlands A/F
Taxiing for static display, a sister a/c had landed behind it full of support equipment & vip's.
ZF171 Tucano RAF
Another arrival for the static park
463864 P-51 Mustang USAF
Mr Ed Shipley (see my Virginia photos last year) warms up the Merlin...